Name:

Chocolate' flint : 2D documentation

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Chronów Kolonia

Location- administrative unit (present):

Chronów Kolonia, Szydłowiec distr., Mazovian voivodeship, Poland

Topographic location:

North-East margin of the Holy Cross Mountain

Object type:

siliceous rocks ; flint

Characteristics of the object- technique:

non

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Upper Jurassic flint

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10 YR 2/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

3 – translucent and 4 - transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

matt and wax-matt

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

fuzzy spots with a slightly different texture, more stratified, with layers and stripes in various shades of gray; sometimes these layers, strands or spots seem to have no reflection in the texture; coloured very dark brown (5 YR 5/2-4/2) with very small spots up to 5 mm or sometimes larger in red-gray and red-brown (5 YR 5/2-4/2) with rare unclear bands in very dark-gray-brown (10 YR 3/2); concretions - large, in shape of nodules and tablets

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

thick, up to 2 mm, with few appendages

Characteristics of the object- transition:

under cortex gray band

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

42 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

36 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

15 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

46 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

22 g

Object description:

group Vc according Schild 1971; occurrence: Guzów i Chronów kolonia

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0056/FLI/PL

Chronology:

Upper Jurassic

Relation:

Atlas skał

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:115528

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-SA 3.0 PL] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget. ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open